Traffic Cones

What the he11 is the deal with traffic cone thieves? Last night we blocked off a small parking area for car stop installation. The car stop supplier called this morning and asks which parking lot to leave off the pallets of car stops. I told him in the usual lot blocked off by the cones. He replies none of the parking lots are blocked off. Again that makes #'s 74 thru 84 of 28" traffic cones that I have had stolen this year alone!!.... and yes they are marked on the outside and on the inside. Are we supposed to lower ourselves to the low life level and start taking other company's traffic cones? Man, I hate that crap. To date we have spent over $ 600 dollars this year on traffic cones. Oh well I guess I need to become a member of the adopt a cone society. Anyone have any applications? Domingo

Give Up and Join us in the Cone Club........

I keep telling you guys, those itty-bitty "toy" cones are a thief magnet. Go ahead and buy some real cones, 36" is better but really you need 42" to stop most thieves and far more traffic. They're larger and bulkier to try to stuff in the car seat & take up too much space in the kid's room. And not nearly somay people will run over them since they are visible over the hood. (When was the last time you saw a 42" "orphan" laying around?) And they don't cost that much more so they pay for themselves by doing a better job and the lack of loss to stolen cones (ad look for more professional to the PM)

just tie a lot of string and ribbon across entrance.. we use tomato string (about 5 bucks for a mile of string) and red ribbon. then we leave a few cones the 42" ones nailed into pavement with 4" concrete nails...

Paint a few of them with pine tar (rosin). May not keep them from being stolen but make the thieves wish they hadn't touched 'em.

You can buy large rolls of barricade rope, its yellow and has black hash marks. Its used at ski resorts too. Its cheap, and can be used over and over.

We have used baling twine with caution tape streamers as well as the orange flagging tape tied on the baling twine. We leave 3 or 4 cones and when we go back, the cones have magically disappeared. I have decided to make some barricades and will be leaving them up with the baling twine & streamers. I will be leaving very few cones on the job sites. We are going to have the company name and phone # on the barricades. I had thought about it some time back, but now it's time to get it done. Domingo